But …. Cisco isn’t the only switch chipmaker pursuing co-packaged optics. Marvell, a major manufacturer of switching silicon, announced plans to acquire Inphi in a deal worth $10 billion in October 2020.

According to Marvell CEO Matt Murphy, Inphi’s electro-optical interconnect technologies compliment the chipmaker’s existing Ethernet physical layer technologies.

In related optical news, Cisco this week paid an additional $2 billion to shore up a botched deal to acquire optical networking vendor Acacia. The network giant will now pay $4.5 billion for the company, which among other optical technologies produces digital signal processors used in pluggable optics.

 https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cisco-inphi-team-up-to-develop-co-packaged-optics/2021/01/

…. let’s go - slow and steady - while the ecosystem organise.

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